I wanted this kiss. I knew I shouldn’t but I did. I knew I should tell him no and walk away to save the hurt that I knew would all but kill me later, but I couldn’t. Because it wasn’t just about walking away from a man like Draven, no it was about not being able to give up on a man like Draven. A man, I was still very much in love with. So even knowing what Vincent had said, about us never being able to be together again. I could only hope that he was wrong about some things because in the other thing he was dead right…
I would never stop fighting for Draven.
I just simply didn’t have it in me.
But with the next words out of Draven’s mouth, I now knew for certain that one of us did and that broken time…shattered…
“I can’t do this anymore.”
Chapter 12
Awkward Much?
On hearing this I quickly ducked out of his hold. My heart pounded with both anger and humiliation, which was an ugly mix. I was just taking a minute to decide whether to storm off or give him a piece of my mind. Maybe it should have taken me longer, then to go with option two and not act on impulse. Either way I didn’t get very far.
“Draven, you can’t just do…!” I started but was cut off mid rant when his hand clamped over my mouth and an arm snaked around my body to pull me back to him.
“Ssshh, we are being watched,” Draven whispered and I followed his eyes to the end of the long aisle to an extremely tall, hooded figure. I frowned at Draven’s paranoid tone and shook my head, managing to dislodge his hand in the process.
“Yeah and I would have thought by now you were used to it.” I retorted dryly but he wasn’t listening.
“Go back to the reception and stay there until I return.” He ordered quickly after he saw the man disappear out of sight and took a step to follow him.
“Draven it’s just a student…”
“Do as I say Keira, now!” Draven said, barking at me in a forceful tone, one that brooked no argument.
“Fine!” I snapped back, turning on my heel and leaving him to whatever freak out he was having. I looked back over my shoulder just in time to see Draven’s form rounding the corner in hot pursuit.
“Whatever,” I muttered as I looked back and bumped straight into someone and that someone was my boyfriend!
“Alex!?” I said his name more in a panic than shock and I found myself trying to lock down the urge to look around for Draven.
“The one and only…but hey, are you alright? You look flushed?” Alex said holding onto the tops of my arms and rubbing them as if he thought I was cold.
“I’m fine!” I said in a high pitched squeal that sounded anything but. He raised one eyebrow at me like I was fooling no one.
“So, what are you doing here? Not that I am not happy to see you of course, I just thought that I would only be seeing you at the airport.” I was rambling and I knew this but when you are having a mini meltdown at the idea of your current boyfriend seeing that he wasn’t the only one to have ‘popped in’ to see me and that my ex had supposedly also had the same idea…well there was only one word for it…
Awkward!
“I wanted to surprise you.” Yeah and he wasn’t the only one, I thought on a wince I hopefully hid. Well given I was just nearly caught kissing my ex I thought I was doing ok so far. Now I just needed to get rid of him before Draven came back.
“Oh you certainly did.” I muttered under my breath as I started pulling him closer to one of the aisles in case an angry Demonic/sometimes slightly Angelic lord came back. Oh who was I kidding, I hadn’t seen Draven’s Angel side in quite a while and there was definitely nothing remotely Angelic in that smouldering look he was giving me only minutes ago. That was right before he dumped a bucket of icy cold water over me and extinguished any flames he had ignited.
Alex laughed at my strange behaviour and luckily I had one of the best excuses considering who my boss was.
“Sorry but I just don’t want to get caught…you know, with my boyfriend…”
“Making out?” He whispered leaning into me. Oh God but right now that was the last thing I wanted to be caught doing and not just by my pain in the ass boss! Not good Keira, so not good!
So what did I do to get out of this situation? What I usually did in all the rest of the awkward positions I managed to get myself into…I snorted and it wasn’t pretty.
“Sorry about that, I’m just, you know…uh…”
“Keira, it’s alright, I know.” At this I think my eyes bulged a bit when I blurted out in panic,
“You do!?” To which he laughed.